Shower trays

Shower Trays Installation

If you are installing a shower cubicle then you need to make plans for correct drainage. Work backwards from the nearest source of drainage - this could be the drainage form the nearest sink or bath - or it could be a man hole outside. If its the latter find something better tospend your money on. As a rule though the pipe needs to slope downhill - not necessarily by a lot - but enough for the water to drain away.

A shower tray is nearly always easier to install on a platform - this often solves the drainage problem because you are gaining some height to start with - and it often means you dont have to worry about getting the floorbaords up. Do your drainage first and then make the platform and decide on the final location for the tray. You should be offering the tray up to the drainage (not buying six million 12 degree bends to get exectly the right angle). The tray will need a trap and this can be adjusted slightly to the angle of the pipe it needs to be joined onto. Showers have special flat bottomed bottle traps which you can clean from the top - dont bother with any other sort of trap than this.

If the tray is to be sited on a wall or in a corner it should be recessed slighly into that wall to prevent water going down behind the tray. This might involve hacking away at the plaster on the wall! The tray will often have a V type perimeter - this is so that you can fill that void with a concrete mixture and then site the tray itself onto a thin bed of mortar to stabise the whole thing. As with brockwork its best to lay the mortor as a sausage where the tray is going to lay and then press the tray down onto the mortar and making sure everything is completely level. This will help to ensre that the water flows away in the tray as it was supposed to.

A layer of flexible silicone should be put between the tray and the wall and then when you have done the tiling between the tiles and the tray. If you dont use flexible silicone it will crack and the tray will m ove around a great deal as people get in and out of the shower. If you dont use silicone at all the water will get behind the tray and then eventually into your floorboards and rot them. That really would not be very much fun at all!

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